brood的意思|brood的解释-里氏词典

brood [brud]

n. 一窝, 一伙

vt. 孵, 沉思

[医] 同窝, 一窝(同时孵出的), 孵, 育

It's no use brooding over one's past mistakes.
老是抱着过去的错误是没用的。
Some insects produce seven or eight broods a year.
有些昆虫一年产七八次卵。
He brood on his failure.
他思忖着他的失败。

brood

[ noun ]

the young of an animal cared for at one time

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[ verb ]

Brood \Brood\, a.
1. Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.

2. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock;
having young; as, a brood sow.

Brood \Brood\ (br[=oo]d), n. [OE. brod, AS. br[=o]d; akin to D.
broed, OHG. bruot, G. brut, and also to G. br["u]he broth,
MHG. br["u]eje, and perh. to E. brawn, breath. Cf. {Breed},
v. t.]
1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood
of chickens.

As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
--Luke xiii.
34.

A hen followed by a brood of ducks. --Spectator.

2. The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same
time or not; young children of the same mother, especially
if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman
with a brood of children.

The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood.
--Wordsworth.

3. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.

Flocks of the airy brood,
(Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). --Chapman.

4. (Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

{To sit on brood}, to ponder. [Poetic] --Shak.

Brood \Brood\ (br[=o]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Brooded}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Brooding}.]
1. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of
warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and
cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and
protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.

Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.
--Milton.

2. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a
subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of
gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or
on; as, to brood over misfortunes.

Brooding on unprofitable gold. --Dryden.

Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt
like one who has evoked a spirit. --Hawthorne.

When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.
--Tennyson.

Brood \Brood\ (br[=oo]d), v. t.
1. To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her
chickens.

2. To cherish with care. [R.]

3. To think anxiously or moodily upon.

You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne.
--Dryden.

He relished his wife, delighted in her pregnancies, and viewed his growing brood with immense satisfaction.
Two bald eagles are nesting in a well-trodden city park overlooking Puget Sound despite the birds' usual intolerance for human activity, and the prospects of their raising a brood are considered good.
And at least I have a protagonist - sexy Harriet Costley - who bears not a flicker of resemblance to the current brood of sweaty, boiled-knuckled, post-feminist female investigators with whom publishers are enamoured.
If the German character is to brood over history, "the Japanese character is to forget," says Takashi Hosomi, a former Finance Ministry official who was an army corporal during the war.
"It's likely fewer than 20 of those hens will produce broods this season." A brood averages eight to 10 ducklings; because of predators and a chancey food supply, only about half live through their first two months.
"We lost most of our brood fish," said Mrs. Doss. "They are scattered everywhere.
We don't pay for anything anymore; they are all fiercely, fully independent." The brood is scattered throughout California and as far as Hawaii.
An all-female brood of sturgeon would bring fatter profits to caviar producers.
"I tend to analyze and brood over what has happened to me until I make little stories," Lopate said.
There is more than one precocious offspring in Royal Bank of Scotland's brood.
The Simpsons, a homely, squabbling brood of Middle-Americans, became such a hit on "Ullman," Fox is spinning them off into their own series.
Dishonorable mention for male chauvinism goes to several species, including the polar bear, who takes no part in cub-raising and even attacks his brood.
Working inwards, a couple of frames had a crescent of white-capped honeycomb at the sides and top, and a dense block of bumpy brown cappings in the centre where the brood was laid, each hexagonal cell holding a growing grub.
At no time, she says, did he ever brood, or run from his considerable problems.
Butcher and her husband live in a wilderness cabin, 140 miles northwest of Fairbanks, Alaska, with a brood of dogs that numbers as many of 150.

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